GEOVIA Minex Course Catalog Australia: 3DS Learning Solutions

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GEOVIA Minex
Course Catalog
Australia
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Contents
Minex Foundation ...................................................................................................................... 3

Minex for Geologists .................................................................................................................. 5
Minex For Engineers .................................................................................................................. 7
Minex Dump Scheduling ........................................................................................................... 9
Minex Open Pit Scheduling..................................................................................................... 11
Minex Drill and Blast ................................................................................................................ 13
Minex Earth Works ................................................................................................................... 15
Minex Open Pit Short Term Planning ................................................................................... 17
Minex SQL for Engineers ......................................................................................................... 19
Minex Pit Optimization ........................................................................................................... 21
Minex Coal Washability ........................................................................................................... 23
Minex Fault Modeling .............................................................................................................. 25
Minex SQL for Geologists ........................................................................................................ 27
Minex Resource Reporting ...................................................................................................... 29
Minex Coal Quality Modeling ................................................................................................. 31
Australia
Minex Foundation
Available Classroom and on-demand
Duration 3 days (Lunch is provided)
Level Fundamental
Audience New users from any Exploration or Mining discipline
The Minex Foundation three-day course covers concepts and procedures that
will allow the user to perform basic functions in the system, and will serve as a
Description basis for more advanced training.
Note: This training course has been allocated 21 PD hours by the AusIMM
At the completion of the course, you will have been exposed to the following
topics and concepts:
• Customize the Minex graphical interface and icons
• Use the basic components of the system for setting up and viewing
data
• Understand the data types, concepts and file structure of Minex
Objectives
• Create new user data for points, lines and surfaces
• Display and interrogate string and borehole data in 3D
• Understand the concepts of grids and generate them
• Understand the concepts of triangles and generate them
• Generate simple volume calculations between surfaces
• Create simple plots in plan and section
Knowledge of: Microsoft® Windows®; file management; ASCII files and

Microsoft Excel®.
Prerequisites The Minex menu structure and graphical user interface (GUI) are similar to most
Windows-based packages and therefore a basic knowledge of the Windows
operating system and environment is necessary.
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Overview
• What is Minex?
• The Mine Planning Process
Installation and the essentials
• Installing the software and licensing
• The Minex interface
• Using the Minex explorer
• Customizing toolbars and menus
• Accessing online help
Organizing your data
• Recommended project folder configuration
• Using the project manager
• Setting a local origin
• Minex data and file types
Working with triangles and grids
• What are triangles and grids?
• Creating and displaying surfaces as solids
• Viewing surface using dynamic clipping
• Manipulating grids and triangles
• Editing grids and triangles using arithmetic
• Querying elevations
• Grid and triangle volumetrics
• Creating and plotting contours
• Reporting grid and triangle statistics
Graphics window manipulations
• Controlling visibility with the object control panel
• Defining the 3D area
• Manual and dynamic navigation
• Changing color maps
• Saving parameters
Displaying boreholes in 3D
• Overview of the borehole database
• Opening the borehole database and displaying boreholes
• Manipulating borehole plotting with the object control panel
DTM modelling
Course Structure Flow
• Overview of the geometry file
• Types of data stored in the geometry file
• The concept of a string and using string data to create triangles and
grids
• Plotting geometry data
• Querying and modifying string properties
Creating string data in 3D
• The concept of local origin
• Importing and exporting geometry data
• Creating strings and points
• Displaying and querying geometry data
• Manipulating data with string functions
• Area functions
• Geometry tools
Creating plans in 2D
• What is a map mount?
• Creating a map mount
• Methods for creating a plan
• Plotting grid and triangles using line and shade contours
• Controlling data using the mount control panel
• Plotting grid value postings and seam outcrops
Creating sections in 2D
• What is a section mount?
• Creating a section mount
• Methods for creating a section plan
• Displaying triangles, grids and seams on a section
• Controlling data using the mount control panel
Plotting and archiving
• Creating and retrieving plot archives
• Spooling plots to a printer
• Graphics capture 4
• Picture editing
Texture mapping
• Supported file types
• Registering and displaying an image
Minex for Geologists

Level Intermediate
Geologists who have successfully completed a Minex Foundation

Audience
training course
The Minex for Geologists 3 day course is designed to provide users

with a good understanding of geology concepts using Minex; and is
essential for geologists to perform every-day and more advanced
Description tasks with the use of the software.
Note: This training course has been allocated 21 PD hours by the

AusIMM
At the completion of the course, you will have been exposed to the
following topics and concepts:
• Understand seam modelling concepts
• Set up a new borehole database
• Use the files within the borehole database to manipulate data
• Load lithological and geophysical data into the borehole
database
• Display boreholes in 3D and in plan and section
Objectives
• Correlate and model seam borehole data
• Interpolate missing seams across boreholes
• Report and export seam interval data
• Interpret and model faults
• Unfault and refault grids
• Build the geological model
• Create a coal quality model
• Use seam model operations
Knowledge of: Microsoft® Windows®; file management; ASCII files

and Microsoft Excel®.
• Completion of Minex Foundation or an introductory Minex

course or basic experience and competency in the use of
Prerequisites
Minex is also required.
The Minex menu structure and graphical user interface (GUI) are
similar to most Windows-based packages and therefore a basic
knowledge of the Windows operating system and environment is
necessary.
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Overview
• Introduction to Minex borehole database
• Overview of borehole database data types/variables
• Requirements for setting up a borehole database
• Setting local origin
Organising your data
• Preparing the collar data file
• Setting up a new borehole database
Working with data
• Loading collar data
• Validating collar data
• Dealing with deviated boreholes
• Borehole header data
• Definition file setup
• Data type and variable setup
Borehole database
• Displaying boreholes in 3D
• Plotting boreholes in plan
• Loading sample data into the borehole database
• Displaying sample data against boreholes
Reporting data
• Reporting borehole data
• Exporting borehole data
• Revising the borehole database
• Displaying boreholes in 2D and 3D plots
• Seam validation reporting
• Plotting borehole sections
• Seam summary reporting
• Exporting seam intervals
Preparing gridded surfaces
• Preparing a topo and weathering surfaces
• Creating a seam/layer sequence
• Validating grids against source data
Interpolation
• Correlating and modelling borehole seams
• Ply splitting
Faults
• Using seam floor grids to interpret faults
• Defining fault strings and displacements
• Generating the fault block model
• Interpolating missing seams
• Generating the fault block model
Unfaulting
• Unfaulting boreholes
• Correlating and modelling unfaulted borehole seams
• Exporting the unfaulted seam intervals
Building the geological model
• Multi-seam/multi-variable gridding
• Building the uncut model
• Building the cut model
Creating a coal quality model
• Selecting seam/sample compositing parameters
• Statistics of quality attributes
• Compute coal quality grids
• Calculating distance grids
Seam model operations
• Computing waste/interburden intervals
• Computing seam washout grids
• Seam grid statistics
• Details resource reporting
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Minex For Engineers

Level Intermediate
Engineers who have successfully completed a Minex Foundation training

Audience
course.
The Minex for Engineers three-day course is designed to provide users with a
good understanding of engineering concepts using Minex; and is essential for
engineers to perform every day and more advanced tasks with the use of the
Description software.

AusIMM
• Rationalize the geological model into a mining model
• Build a merged model and calculate strip ratio
• Create bench grids and a bench list
• Generate the reserves database
• Update reserves for modelled quality information
Objectives • Validate database volumes using the detailed resource reporting
option
• Convert insitu reserves into run of mine reserves
• Manipulate the reserves database using SQL’s
• Display reserves blocks in 3D
• Manipulate the reserves database to conduct margin ranking
• Report gridded reserves inside various margin categories
• Create dump profile surfaces and design rehabilitated surfaces
• Set out blast patterns and generate drillers reports

Microsoft Excel®.
• Completion of Minex Foundation or an introductory Minex course or

Prerequisites basic experience and competency in the use of Minex is also
required.
The Minex menu structure and graphical user interface (GUI) are similar to
most Windows-based packages and therefore a basic knowledge of the
Windows operating system and environment is necessary.
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Overview
• Rationalise the geological model
• Examine outcrop / subcrop of seams
• Calculate the merged model
• Create cross sections through merged seams
• Identify design constraints
Create bench grids
• Geotechnical parameters (wall angles and berms)
• Identify bench surfaces, bottom seam, bench height
• Create bench grids
Pit Design
• Define the bench list & generate benches
• Generate pit shell
• Calculate insitu resources
• Generate strips and blocks
Validating
• Block editing
• Validating blocks
• Displaying pit geometry data
Building reserves
• Create a reserves database
• Defining codes and layers
• Add quality variables
• Generate insitu reserves
• Update quality variables with modeled data
Reserves validation
Course Structure Flow • Report reserves
• Methods for validating reserves
ROM reserve manipulation
• Examine layers in the reserves database
• Waste and merge layers
• Apply losses and dilutions
• Edit the database using SQLs
Block display and SQL
• Display reserve blocks in 3D
• Detailed pit / block plotting
• Compile and execute strip ratio SQL
Reporting and validating
• Validate reserves
• Report using other methods
• Export block / layer polygons
Block margin ranking
• Calculate margin using SQL
• Shade plot margin ranking results
• Report gridded reserves inside various margin categories
Creating dump surfaces using earthworks
• Build dragline dump profiles
• Create waste dump surfaces
Surface rehabilitation
• Create final dump profiles
Drill & Blast
• Setup blast pattern
• Generate drillers reports
• Create blast plan
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Minex Dump Scheduling

Duration 1 Day
Course Material Printed Manual (English)
Level Intermediate
Engineers who have successfully completed the Minex Open Pit

Audience
Scheduling course.
The Minex Dump Scheduling one-day course is designed to provide

users with a good understanding of dump scheduling and haulage
planning concepts within Minex. This course is essential for engineers
to perform long term and medium term planning and scheduling and
Description more advanced tasks within Minex.

AusIMM
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to accomplish the

following:
• Report the existing pit schedule
• Report reserves in pit and dump volumes
• Create roads connecting pits and dumps
• Setting up the dump scheduler scenario manager
• Generate sequence files, and manipulating them
Objectives • Run the dump scheduler and report for existing pit schedules
• Display and playback
• Create dump and pit schedules together
• Handle material classes
• Ramp distance generator
• Calculate truck cycle times
• Report truck cycle times
• Compare trucks, roads, truck-shovel combinations

Microsoft Excel®.
• Completion of Minex Foundation course or equivalent or

Prerequisites equivalent experience and competency in the use of Minex.
necessary.
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Overview
• Report reserve database
• Report current schedule and calendar
• Replay current schedule
• Workflow of dump scheduling and haulage planning
Organizing your data
• Recommended project folder configuration
• Create dump schedule database
Scenario Manager
• Create scenario file and scenarios
• Layout canvas
• Sequence generator, dump availability and lag, pit ranking
• Creating a new dump schedule with existing pit schedule
Dump Scheduling
• Schedule run
• Schedule play back and reporting
• Exporting face position
• Creating a new dump schedule with a new pit schedule
• Ramp distance generator
• Add fleet(equipment), add trucks (from library or manually)
• Calculate truck cycle times
• Reporting trucks
• Haulage selection
• Analysing results
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Minex Open Pit Scheduling

Duration 3 Days
Level Intermediate - Advanced
Audience Intermediate Minex Users
The Minex Open Pit Scheduling two-day course provides users with a
good understanding of engineering scheduling concepts and suits
long term or short term planners.
Description
AusIMM
• Set up blast and design defaults
• Design blast hole collar patterns
• Prime and load blast holes
Objectives
• Design the tie-in pattern for firing
• Upload the blast design to the blast database
• Create a true blast outline using a blast deconstruction cone
• Create a blast solid
• Produce a blast report
Before taking this course, you require the following:
• Knowledge of: Microsoft® Windows®; file management;

ASCII files and Microsoft Excel®.
• Completion of the Minex for Engineers course or Minex Pit
Prerequisites Design and Reserves training, or equivalent experience and
competency in the use of Minex.
necessary.
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Overview
• Concepts and objectives of scheduling
• Types of scheduling within Minex
Preparing for Scheduling
• Creating and editing the calendar file
• The schedule wizard
• Displaying mining blocks in 3D
• Defining equipment and production rates
Target Scheduling
• Nominating targets and time periods
• Creating the sequence file and schedule path
• Running a target schedule
• Schedule playback
Reporting and Schedule Results Output
• Details schedule report
• Residual reserves report
• Creating face positions surfaces
Detailed Scheduling
• Defining scheduling rules
• Review of the equipment file and properties
• Detailed interactive scheduling
• Target monitor setup
• Using a date control file
• Create auto equipment for mining thin seams
Reporting and Scheduling Results Output
• Equipment productivity report
• Schedule calendar report
• Exporting face positions
Managing the Schedule Database
• Branching schedules
• Merging schedules
• Deleting schedules
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Minex Drill and Blast

Duration 1 day
Level Intermediate
Engineers who have successfully completed a Minex Foundation

Audience
training course.
The Minex Drill and Blast one-day course is designed to provide users
with a good understanding of using the module for designing drilling
plans and how to manage and report the outputs. This course is
Description recommended for engineers working on drill and blast design.

AusIMM
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to accomplish the

following:
• Understand the concept of Drill and Blast design
Objectives • Design a blast for the data provided
• Edit the design
• Generate reports
• Export pattern to GPS


Prerequisites
necessary.
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Defining a Blast Pattern

• Set the geometry definition
• Specify blast pattern parameters (spacing, burden, pattern,
standoff)
• Hole parameters (inclination), hole display parameters
• Specify surfaces (choose design surface – toe or surface)
• Collar surface (grid, triangle or elevation)
• Toe surface (grid, triangle, elevation or fixed depth)
• Specify blast plotting parameters for display
• Blast explorer
Designing the Blast
• Set the reference line
Course Structure Flow • Set the setout lines
• Generate holes
• Project
Editing/Manipulating Holes
• Hole editing
• Boundary
• Zones
• Renumbering/delete/add move and re-project
Reporting
• Generate burden report, or preview blast influence
• Take drillers report or GPS report
• Get drill production report
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Minex Earth Works

Duration 1 Day
Level Fundamental / Intermediate

Audience
training course.
The Minex Earth Works one-day course is designed to provide users

with a good understanding of using the Earth Works and Spoil
Reshaping modules for designing dumps, haul roads, spoils or
reshaping spoils. This course is recommended for engineers working
Description
on dump design, haul roads and spoil reshaping.

AusIMM
• Understand the concept of dump, haul road and spoil design
Objectives • Design haul roads, find cut and fill volumes
• Create spoil piles, max spoils and drag spoils
• Spoil reshaping – compute and report
• Surface rehabilitation


Prerequisites
necessary.
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Dump Design
• Create max spoil
• Use max spoil for dump design
• Create drag spoil
Haul Roads
• Design haul roads and report
Soil Re-Grade
• Create spoil re-grade
• Report
Surface Rehabilitation
• Create template strings
• Sections
• Calculate cut and fill
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Minex Open Pit Short Term Planning

Duration 2 Days
Level Fundamental / Intermediate

Audience
training course.
The Minex Open Pit Short Term Mine Planning two-day course is
designed to provide users with a good understanding for designing
drilling plans and how to manage and report the outputs, creating
spoil piles and haul roads. This course is recommended for engineers
Description
working on drill and blast design or other short term planning areas.

AusIMM
• Understand the concept of drill and blast design
• Design a blast for the data provided
• Edit the design
Objectives • Generate reports
• Export pattern to GPS
• Create haul roads and calculate volumes
• Create spoil shapes for spoil piles or dumps
• Create spoil rehabilitation plans
• Estimate work for spoil reshaping


Prerequisites
necessary.
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Defining a Blast Pattern
• Set the geometry definition
• Specify blast pattern parameters (spacing, burden, pattern,
standoff)
• Hole parameters (inclination), hole display parameters
• Specify surfaces (choose design surface – toe or surface)
• Collar surface (grid, triangle or elevation)
• Toe surface (grid, triangle, elevation or fixed depth)
• Specify blast plotting parameters for display
• Blast explorer
Designing the Blast
• Set the reference line
• Set the set out lines
• Generate holes
• Project
Editing / Manipulating Holes
• Hole editing
• Boundary
• Zones
• Renumbering/delete/add move and re-project
Reporting
• Generate burden report, or preview blast influence
• Take drillers report or GPS report
• Get drill production report
Dump Design
• Create max spoil
• Use max spoil for dump design
• Create drag spoil
Haul Roads
• Design haul roads & report
Spoil Re-Grade
• Create spoil re-grade
• Report
Surface Rehabilitation
• Create template strings
• Sections
• Calculate cut and fill
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Minex SQL for Engineers

Duration 1 Day
Level Fundamental
The Minex SQL for Engineers one-day course is course is designed to

Audience provide engineers with the fundamental knowledge of SQL macros in
Minex.
The Surpac Geology Intermediate two-day course is for geologists

who want to improve their skills and concepts within the geology and
block modelling modules. The course will provide users with a good
Description understanding of using Surpac.

AusIMM
• Report data from borehole database with a defined set of
conditions
• Calculate the values for new variable from existing variables
using any empirical formulae
• Thicken or thin seam sections based on conditions
Objectives • Compute working section from ply models with user defined
conditions
• Classify the resources as per JORC
• Compute ROM models from in situ models for loss, dilution,
etc.
• Create cost models, price models, and sale value models
• Create ROM reserves
• Classify reserves as per JORC

• Completion of Minex Foundation and Minex for Engineers

course or equivalent experience and competency in the use
Prerequisites
of Minex.
necessary.
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What is SQL
• Introduction to the SQL language
• Understanding the language syntax as implemented in Minex
• Types of SQL
• Interface of SQL - initiation, saving, and execution
Syntax (anatomy) of SQL
• Macro type
• Declaration statements / Assignment statements
• Conditional clauses/selection criteria
• Executable statements
• Input/output statements
SQL application with sample database SQL( B32) and variable SQL
• The macro showing the status of the variables in the sample
database
Flags SQL
• Flag SQL and its applications in Minex
• Flag SQL in borehole plotting
• Flag SQL in borehole database seam reporting
Seam Pick SQL (B33)
Course Structure Flow • The macro showing status of seam pick SQL
• Syntax for delete/update the seams
• Creating a macro to compute working section where IB is
less than 0.30m
Grid SQL
• The macro showing status of grid SQL
• Example macro execution through seam model operations
(menu explanation)
• Compile - fill table – run
• Creating ROM models from in situ models with examples
• Creating cost grids, price grids, and sale value grids
• Grids SQL with suffix
• Filling blocks in a block model
• Assigning values
• Inverse distance calculations
• Ordinary kriging estimation
Reserve DB SQL
• The macro showing status of variables for reserve database
• Creating ROM reserves from in situ reserves
• Classifying reserves as per JORC
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Minex Pit Optimization

Duration 3 Days
Level Intermediate, Advanced
Audience Intermediate to advanced Minex users
The Minex Pit Optimization three-day course is designed to provide users

with a good understanding of pit optimization concepts and how to manage
and report the outputs. Attendees will also develop their skills in refining the
cost and revenue models to best suit individual mine operations. This course
Description
is recommended for engineers evaluating new or existing mining operations.

AusIMM
• Understand the concept of pit optimization
• Set up a fixed of variable cost model for mining/processing costs by
area/depth
Objectives • Establish revenue and sale price on a quality variable (e.g. calorific
value)
• Control optimum pit slopes by seam or zone
• Control haulage cost by area and depth
• Introduction to SQL for creating cost and price model
• Display and present Optimiser results
• Report waste and coal quantities for the optimum pit shells
• Understand the benefits of margin ranking versus pit optimization

Microsoft Excel®.
• Completion of Minex Foundation or an introductory Minex course or

Prerequisites
basic experience and competency in the use of Minex.
The Minex menu structure and graphical user interface (GUI) are similar to
most Windows-based packages and therefore a basic knowledge of the
Windows operating system and environment is necessary.
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Overview
• Pit optimization theory
Geological model validation
• Methods for checking the geology model for validity before
optimizing
Create the merged model
• Create merged model
Identify optimization parameters
• Identifying mining and physical constraints
• Establish revenue and sale price on a quality variable (e.g. calorific
value)
• Setup fixed cost model for mining/processing
• Setup variable cost model for mining/processing
Pit optimization
• Optimizer menu introduction
• Run pit Optimiser
Reporting
• Create report template
• Report pit optimizer result
Intro to SQL
• Set mining costs for layer thickness, depth, location
• Set sale value for multi-product mines (e.g. domestic, export)
Advanced pit optimization
• Using the MNX file
• Control optimum pit slopes by zone
• Control haulage cost by area and depth
• Creating price and cost model using SQL scripts
Analyzing results
• Using simple methods to choose your ultimate pit
• Display and present optimizer results
• Report waste and coal quantities for the optimum pit shells
Validating results
• Analyzing log file
• Check strip ratio vs. basic costs
• Base limiting grids
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Minex Coal Washability

Duration 1 day
Course Material Soft Copy Manual (English)
Level Fundamental
Audience Intermediate to Advanced Minex users
The Minex Coal Washability one-day course is designed to cover all

key concepts and functionality, around the Minex Coal Washability
module.
Description
AusIMM
• Concepts of coal washability
• Creating coal washability database
Objectives • Loading and edit of floats and sinks of washability data
• Report from a washability database
• Regularise a washability database
• Update borehole database from a washability database
• Product, middle and reject grid creation

• Completion of Minex for Geologists course or equivalent or
Prerequisites equivalent experience and competency in the use of Minex
necessary.
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Introduction
• Overview of wash data and key deliverables
Washability database creation, loading and edit of sample and wash
float and sink data
• Database creation
• Loading and editing of sample data
• Loading and editing of wash data
• Selecting wash data
Reporting coal wash data
• Report seam/sample check
• Report a composite report
• Create basic report
• Create float and sink report
Regularizing coal wash data
• Setting up parameters and wash curve type
• Regularise wash data
Updating coal wash data to borehole database
• Creating prime, middling and reject variables in borehole
database
• Update database with cutoff and yield control
Modelling of coal wash data
• At different cut points modelling of wash yield, density etc.
Detailed resource report
• Run through the ROM and yield resources
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Minex Fault Modeling

Duration 2 Days
Course Material Printed Manual
Audience Minex Users (Engineers)
The Minex Faulting two-day course will provide geologists with the
fundamental knowledge of fault interpretation from seismic sections
and contour plans.
Description
AusIMM
• Understand discontinuities
• Use quick faulting tools for 2D Faulting
• Fault interpretation though 2D sections and contour plans
• Generation of fault surfaces from strings
• Generation of fault strings from surveyed fault surface
Objectives • Fault block (fault ERA) generation
• Generation of fault picks, to cross check in boreholes
• Edit fault picks and supplement in faulting
• Unfaulting the borehole/geometry data
• Validation of faults (sections and plans)
• Generate the faults through refaulting
• Validation of final model
• Resource reports for faulted models

necessary.
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Overview
• Understanding discontinuities and faulting process and terminology
Faulting quick tools /2D faults
• 2D faults without throw and vertical faults with throw
Fault interpretation
• Fault interpretation through 2D sections and contour plans
Generation of 3D fault surface and strings
• Generating fault surfaces from interpreted strings
• Generation of fault strings from surveyed fault surfaces
Generation of fault ERA
• Generation of fault blocks
• Investigation of fault blocks for possible errors
Generation of fault picks
• Creating borehole – fault intersection database
• Validating the fault database and editing if required
• Supplementing fault picks for faulting
Unfaulting borehole and geometry database
Course Structure Flow • Unfaulting borehole database
• Unfaulting geometry data
• Validation of data
Rapid seam modelling
• Run through bore seam modelling for splitting and missing seam
interpretation
• Multi seam and multi variable gridding
Validating unfaulting models
• Generation of cross sections
• Generation of structural contour plans
• Validation of unfaulted model
Refaulting
• Generation of refaulted grids
• Generation of cross sections
• Generation of structural contour plans
• Validation of final models
Detailed resource reporting
• Resource generation for faulted blocks
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Minex SQL for Geologists

Duration 1 Day
Audience Minex Users (Geologists)
The Minex SQL for Geologists one-day course is designed to provide

geologists with the fundamental knowledge of SQL macros in Minex.
Description
AusIMM
• Report data from borehole database with a defined set of
conditions
• Calculate the values for new variable from existing variables
using any empirical formulae
Objectives • Thicken or thin seam sections based on conditions
• Compute working sections from ply models with user defined
conditions
• Classify the resources as per JORC
• Compute ROM models from in situ models for loss, dilution,
etc.
• Classify reserves as per JORC

• Completion of Minex Foundation and Minex for Geologists
course or equivalent experience and competency in the use
Prerequisites
of Minex.
necessary.
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What is SQL
• Introduction to the SQL language
• Understanding the language syntax as implemented in Minex
Types of SQL
• Interface of SQL - initiation, saving, and execution
Syntax (anatomy) of SQL
• Macro type
• Declaration statements / Assignment statements
• Conditional clauses / Selection criteria
• Executable statements
• Input/output statements
SQL application with sample database SQL (B32)
• The macro showing the status of the variables in the sample database
• Creating a macro that identifies the sample that complain ash > 25 and/or
with a calorific value less than 12,000 Btu/Lb
• Calculating in situ RD from total moisture using the Preston Sanders
equation
Borehole SQL variables
• Creating variable SQL
• Setting the properties for execution
• Example macro for computing RD from ash by empirical formulae
Flag SQL Flag SQL and its applications in Minex
• Flag SQL in borehole plotting / database seam reporting
Seam pick SQL (B33)
• The macro showing status of seam pick SQL
• Syntax for delete/update the seams
• Creating a macro to compute working section where IB is less than
0.30m
Grid SQL
• The macro showing status of grid SQL
• Example of macro execution through seam model operations (menu
explanation)
• Compile - fill table – run
• Creating ROM models
• JORC grids for classifying the resource
• Grids SQL with suffix
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Minex Resource Reporting

Duration 1 Day
Audience Minex Users (Geologists)
The Minex Resource Reporting one-day course is designed to cover

all key concepts and functionality for resource reporting using Minex.
Description
AusIMM
• Understand the implications of structural models in resource
reporting
• Understand the implications of quality models in resource
reporting
• Validate structural models – sections, contour plans and diff
plots
• Validate quality data – check extents, default values, diff-
Objectives
plots (model vs database), line contour and shade contour
plots
• In-situ reporting – seam weighted average reports
• Detailed resource reporting– setting up grid limits and
polygon limits
• Classify resources on depth, ash and multiple variables
• Set-up report templates
• Report in-situ, qualities and ROM and Yield tonnages
• Set-up parameters for reuse

necessary.
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Overview
• Understanding implications of structural models in resource
• Understanding quality models in resource
Validate models
• Validate structure models- diff plots, sections, line contour plots
• Validate quality models – diff plots, grid stats vs. borehole database
stats
• Statistics reports and regression curves
Simple in-situ reports
• In-situ reports for tonnage and volume
• Weighted quality reporting
JORC distance grids
• Create distance grids for classifying resources (no more polygons)
• Option to create JORC polygons
Detailed resource reporting
• Set up defaults and weighted models
• Set up quality and surface limits
• Class reports, bench reports
Template definition
• Defining resource template- rgt for reuse
• Variables, filers, keys, global summaries and groups
Reporting
• Setting up parameter files
• Report to CSV/text
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Minex Coal Quality Modeling

Duration 2 Days
Audience Participants who have successfully completed a Minex Foundation

training course.
Coal Quality Modeling 2 day training course is designed to provide

users with a good understanding of Coal Quality Modeling in Minex. It
is essential to understand various composite and weightage options
Description (ply / seams) to generate accurate quality models.

AusIMM
• Understanding Coal Quality Modelling in Minex
• Create data types and variable for proximate, ultimate and
mineralogical quality data
• Understand compositing and its application in Minex
database
• Mass, density and yield compositing
Objectives
• Loading coal quality data
• Data Validation- Sample reports, quality validation reports,
statistics, histograms and cross correlation plots
• Analysing different gridding methods growth tech, inverse
distance (standard, modified standard and structural)
• Validating quality models - diff plots, line contour and shade
contour plots
• Reporting weighted quality and tonnages- Insitu and
detailed resource estimation

Prerequisites
necessary.
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Overview
• Understanding Coal Quality data base
• Overview of Quality data types/variables
• Understanding Proximate, ultimate and mineralogical data
Organizing Data
• Preparing the basic files for various types of quality data
• Setting up a new borehole database with quality data types,
variables
Quality / Borehole Database Loading Quality data
• Validating Quality data
• Updating Quality data
• Data validation exercises
Reporting Data
• Reporting quality sample data
Seam Quality Validation
• Statistics
• Histograms
• Cross correlation - regression equation
• Selecting optimal compositing setting - tolerance and % sample for
quality database
Different Quality Modelling Methods
• Growth tech modelling
• Inverse distance – standard, modified standard and structural
Validate Quality models
• Quality model statistics vs database
• Difference plots for quality models vs quality database
Reporting and exporting data Reporting tonnage and weighted quality
• Reporting weighted quality - Insitu resource reporting-
• Quality reporting in Detailed resource reporting
• Exporting quality data
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